Girdler, William

Grizzly

Studio: Media Blasters Inc. Release Date: 04/11/2006

Sheba, Baby

A chicago private detective returns back home to louisville kentucky to help her father fight mobsters. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 01/08/2008 Starring: Pam Grier Durville Martin Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Pg Director: William Girdler

Pam Grier combines big guns and fantastic '70s outfits in Sheba, Baby. After roughly 4,000 establishing shots of Chicago in the opening credits, private eye Sheba Shayne (Grier) immediately heads to Louisville, where thugs are leaning on her father's business, trying to get him to sell out. The police, alas, are no help, but never fear--Sheba is the kind of private dick who doesn't shy away from dunking a man's face in toxic chemicals to get the information she needs. She soon finds herself going head-to-head with a crime lord named Pilot, and the butt kicking begins. Sheba, Baby offers giant ties, big guns, and a firefight on speedboats, and yes, of course there's a catfight. Mandatory viewing. --Ali Davis

Fox in a Box - Featuring Pam Grier (Sheba, Baby / Foxy Brown / Coffy)

"From Blaxploitation to Hip-Hop" Featurette "Pam Grier: Super Foxy" Featurette

Manitou

What surgeons thought to be a tumor growing on the neck of patient Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg of PSYCH-OUT) is actually a fetus growing at an abnormally accelerated rate. But when Karen reaches out to former lover and phony psychic Harry Erskine (Academy Award® nominee Tony Curtis) he discovers that she is possessed by the reincarnation of a 400-year old Native American demon. Now with the help of a modern-day medicine man (Michael Ansara) Erskine must survive this ancient evil s rampage of shocking violence and forever destroy the enraged beast known as THE MANITOU. Stella Stevens Ann Southern and Burgess Meredith co-star in this infamous horror shocker produced and directed by William Girdler (GRIZZLY DAY OF THE ANIMALS) from the best-selling novel by Graham MastertonFeatures:Theatrical TrailerTV SpotFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 013131332292 Manufacturer No: DV13322

Lurid, ludicrous, and laughable (and those are the good parts), The Manitou is one of those movies that asks more questions that it answers. For instance, were respectable actors like Tony Curtis and Burgess Meredith so in need of a payday that they agreed to take part in this nonsense? Does the film fall into the so-bad-it's-good category, or is this horror story just plain horrid? Viewers will draw their own conclusions, assuming they can get through this 1978 tale about a centuries-old, evil Indian medicine man who returns to wreak all sorts of vengeful havoc on an unsuspecting populace. The setting is San Francisco (a place you'd think would be more tolerant of such alternative lifestyles), where Karen Tandy (Susan Strasberg) seems to have been chosen at random as the host for the manitou's latest regeneration. When she goes to the hospital complaining about a tumor growing on her back (it starts out grapefruit-sized but enlarges at an alarming rate), doctors determine that the thing is in fact a living fetus. But their decision to bombard it with x-rays may not be the wisest course of treatment. When they then fail to cut it out (manitous apparently don't like scalpels), bogus psychic Harry Erskine (Curtis), Karen's love interest and a fellow who spends most of his time duping gullible old ladies, starts investigating alternative methods of extermination, seeking out a fortune teller (Stella Stevens) for a séance that goes very, very wrong, consulting a doddering old professor (Meredith, camping it up), and finally bringing in a contemporary medicine man (Michael Ansara) to try to keep the malevolent Misquamacus at bay. There are a few scary moments and a couple of nice set pieces, but horror fans will find The Manitou extremely tame by new millennium standards; and the climactic battle between good and evil is so silly as to beggar description. "If only we had some authority!" worries the Curtis character when he realizes what they're up against. A good script and better acting, direction, effects work, and all the other elements of a decent movie would have helped, too. --Sam Graham

Day of the Animals

The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced.

Day of the Animals

Abby (The Black Exorcist Edition)

"The blaxploitation answer to "The Exorcist" finds professor William Marshall unknowingly bringing an ancient evil spirit back with him from Nigeria. Once in America the demon enters the body of Carol Speed Marshall's daughter-in-law and drives her to vomit at preacher husband Terry Carter's sermons and seduce strange men in bars and kill them. Can an exorcism ceremony save Speed?""Abby Doesn't Need a Man...The Devil Is Her Lover Now!William Girdler s blaxploitation answer to The Exorcist (1973) is a down and dirty dollar store knock-off of the Hollywood blockbuster that has since gained a loyal cult following of it s own. Pulled from theaters only weeks after it s premiere sued into obscurity and essentially a lost movie for three decades Abby is finally ready to repossess the souls of fans everywhere! SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: trailer radio spot poster images lobby card repros production stills".Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 804879069393 Manufacturer No: CF6939

Three on a Meathook

Starring Charles Kissinger and James Pickett. Three On A Meathook is an exciting horror movie extensively based on the gruesome deeds of real-life killer Ed Gein. Four girls on their way home from a weekend at the lake find themselves stranded when thei

Asylum of Satan/Satan's Children

Asylum of Satan (1971) - Lovely Lucina Martin suspects there's something wrong with the rest home where she's recovering from a nervous breakdown. Therapy includes covering a patient in bugs, setting another on fire, and tossing a third into a pool full of snakes. Then there's the hatchet-faced ghoul running around upstairs and a grinning demon lurking in the basement. Which is why Lucina believes that this is not a tranquil hospital but actually an Asylum of Satan! The first feature from William Girdler, director of "Three on a Meathook" and "The Manitou," is fun, gory drive-in fare direct from Jefferson County, Kentucky. "Satan's Children" (1974) - Runaway teen Bobby is given shelter by a friendly cult of Satanists, but his presence--and questionable sexuality--leads to conflicts within Satan's Children, especially after a lesbian member is damned to Hell. But Bobby proves to be one sick puppy, which he demonstrates in ways that would even make the devil smile. So hilarious, homophobic, and just plain insane, you'd think Lucifer himself was personally involved!

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